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OL, , GREAT FALLS, MONTANA TERRITORYJ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19. 1885, NO, 32
SITKA, ALASKA.
Reminisc ncss vy a Former Rellidcnt
WRITTEN FOR THE T)IEUNE.
The most southern and enjoyabhl
portion of Alaska is Sitka, t1h capl
tal, chief town and seat of govern
meat. Some very useful improve
meats were made by the military
while in possession. At first there
was no wharf. Vessels on arrivi1l
anchored in the roads or middle o!
the harbor, the cargo ibeing unloaded:
by the aid of lighters or scows anu
rowed to the landing, then carried u1.
a flight of stone or wooden steps tc
the dilferent warehouses. This wa.:
found to be very laborious, cumber
some and slow work. In loading or
sending supplies to the dif erent posts
of Tongas, XWrangel, Kodiak and
Kenay the same process was perform
ed. As a requisition was required to
be made for material, and approved
by the proper authority, before any
could be procured, improvements
were slow, having to utilize such ma
terial as could be found outside of
the quartermaster's department.
There were a few old brigs or
barges of a by-gone age lying near
the wharf. The hulls were sound.
Those vessels were run aground by
the Russians at an early period in the
history of Alaska. It appears they
were pursued by the British, that
power being jealous of any encroach
ment in the vicinity of their posses
sions. "It is an ill wind that blows
nobody some good." The Yankee
soldiers overhauled these abandoned
vessels, (abandoned since the Crimean
war) and found a quantity of pocket
knives, razors and other cutlery,which
they disposed of t5 advantage, and in
a short space of time pooeeled off the
copper and sent it to market. It then
became a matter of consideration as
to whether these old vessels could be
moved out in a line with the landing
place, into deep water, filled with
rock, piles placed from them to the
wharf, the space filled in and a wharf
made to enable vessels to load and un
load as in civilized cities. No sooner
said than done. The boys set to work
and in a short time the pier was made
and vessels of the tonnage of the
Great Eastern could come and go
load and unload with every facility.
Stepping on the wharf you pass a
large store house built of massive
logs. Here was the Russian store
houses andT country house. Three
times a day the bell rung--morning,
to go to work, rum served; noon for
d:aner, rum again, and at quitting
time-rum again. The Russians
marched in file by two's to the build
ing; the company commander unlock
ed the spirit room; a large tub well
filled was brought out; a sergeant '
stepped in front, took out his book, i
called the names in alphabetical or- t
der, each man taking the copper meas- C
ure, dipped it into the tub, raised it I
to his mouth and drained it to the
bottom, then passed the measure to I
the next, and so on. Any man not 1
wishing to go for his rum, as stated, C
could leave it for a week or a month a
and draw it all at once and sell it to s
the Americans. A good many availed i
themselves of this privilege, and were a
glad to get the American dollar. As I
stated in a former paper, leather mon- r
ey was the only currency, passing f
from hand to hand. The stamp on
the piece of feather gave it value. All I
kinds of goods, wares and merchan- c
dise were so bought and sold. Well a
might the natives exclaim: "You may d
say what you please, but there's noth- e
ing like leather!" I
The store house is on your left, f
next comes the battery commanding a
the "approaches" from every direction 8
by water and by land. To the right 8
and opposite the battery are the sol
diers' barracks, large log buildings s
much improved in lining, flooring and b
ventilation. The Russians were ut- e
terly strangers to sanitary conditions a
or laws. The soldiers' quarters are e
approachable by a wooden stairway. g
Some seventy feet higher up is the o
Governor's residence, a large frame C
building substantially built, possess- s
ing every accommodation, comfort and o
convenience. The interior is very i+
handsome; the rooms are large and t+
can be extended on public occasions, is
by sliding and folding doors. From P
the summit of the roof there is a e
tower, in which there is a light burn- s
ing day and night during the winter f
months. From the elevated position
of the Governor's residence and the E
height of the tower this light can be c
seen from a long distance by vessels n
coming into the harbor. At the Gov- I
ernor's residence the writer saw for s
the first time the celebrated "Russian t+
baths." It was in a middle-sized room, t1
in the centre of which the bath was t4
constructed; underneath there was a a
space resembling a small bread oven. 1
Here the fire is started. Above this sl
there is a much larger space resei- b
bling a baker's oven. Ia this thern
are placed a number of oval-shaped
rocks, which are heated by the fire be
low. To the left of this there arc
some eight or nine steps, at the tor;
of which there is a small iron door.
When the rocks in the upper space
are red hot, or noarly so, an attend
ant pours in several pails full of wa
tor; the chamber is at once closed. be
ing filled with steam, and the sinall
door referred to, at the head of the
head of the steps. is opened. On the
1 nupper steps nthe heatis to some people
is unbearabne, b'.Aeis is easily re_
edeld b1 dec;ending a step or two, or
imore if required. It is graduially
cooler, so that a person can have any
degree of heat (4esired by descending
or ascending. I'e construction of
these baths is very simple. Every
family in Great Falls City ought to
have one. The room is the first de
sideratum and chief consideration.
Give Mr. Fritz a vacant room, and up
goes your Ilusian baths quick as a
wink, and at very little cost. For
rheumatism these baths are known to
be the most beneficial that human sci
ence or skill has yet invented.
Leaving the governor's mansion and
the Russian baths, you return by the
stairway you ascended. Now you are
firmly pianted' on Lincoln street, nam
ed after the immortal President. This
street is the largest in Alaska. It ex
tends from the landing at the wharf
to Baranoff -Rock beyond the sub
urbs. On each side of the street are
stores and dwellings, solid, handsome
and durable. About the centre of
Lincoln street (or so much of it as is
inhabited) stands the Ruasian church,
beautiful iaside and handsomely orna
mnented. The Russian Emperors have
from time to time most liberally con
tributed to this temple of the Lord,
where Russian men, women and chil
dren kneel down and ipray. TheI l ,est
villainous and outrageou:s robbery on
record in Alaska's hintory was pirpe
trated here. It was a most sacreligi
ous crime, and went undlstected and
unpuani.hed. There is a mngnificent
chime of boils attached to tthe ch arch.
The bell-ringers a.scend from the out
sideby ladders to the belfry. During
the night some r-illans ascended to
the belfry, drawing the ladder up af
ter them and letting it down on the
inside from the dome. which is :.rm
ed of glass. The pillage was then
effected. The altar ornaments, sacred
vessels, of gold and silver, and even
the clasps and ornaments of a large
Bible, presented by the Empress of
Russia to the Archbishop, was disfig
ured. Such an act as this-such a
deed was never heard of among the
Russian people--anything so vile and
base was unknown. Although a re
ward of S1,000 was offered, for any
information that would lead to detec
tion and conviction of the robbers, no
clue could be found. Gen. Jeff. C.
Davis, the coimanding General, did
all that was possible for him to do,
but failed, and in feeling and forcible
language he stigmatized the robbery
of the ahurch as vile beyond measure
and disgraceful to humanity. In
speaking ta the writer on the subject,
he expressed himself as willing to go
any length to find out and punish the
perpetrators of such a horrible out
rage against a people so poor, peaco
I1 nl an rnnRffonrlinr
It leaked out afterward in some way
how the robbery was committed, and
criminals who were concerned in some
other crookedness were dishonorably
discharged from the army and expell
ed from the territory. After their ex
pulsion it was said the "goods" stolen
from the church were disposed of to
a Jew who kept a kind of trading
store in Sitka, and by him melted and
sent to Victoria, B. C.
To the left of the Greek church
stood the Alaska Times office. It may
be said of that paper that during its
existence it was the advocate of mor
ality and virtue, of equal justice and
equal rights for all under our form of
government, and the greatest amount
of personal liberty governed by law.
Conducting a newspaper even in a
small town is not reposing on a bed
of roses. In exposing and suppress
ion of -vice, the vicious damns the edi
tor; hlikewise in crime, in politics and
in every kind of rascality demanding
publicity. The editor is doubly damn
ed, denounced, assailed, and often as
saulted. We were not altogether free
from menacings in remote Alaska.
Paul B. Ryan was city marshal at
Sitka for a long time. He was an ex
cellent, trustworthy officer and a good
man in everything the term implies.
For some cause he resigned and was
succeeded by one George Washing
ton Brady. Now Mr. Brady was what
the writer designated him (previous
to his appointment): the butt end of
a blackguard-and the writer was not
mistaken. The new city marshal
showed his capacity as a peace-maker
by going into a billi.r4 saloon and
mercilessly assaiiing Mr. Woods, a
lawyer of the town, and. one of the
Smot genial, affable and considerate
men in the community. Not, content
with u,-i,, his walkin-stick, he went
for his shat gun to complete the work
he had begun, but was prevented by
some byst:anders. MI. David Shirp
ser, an old-time Californian and mer
chant of San Francisco, was in com
pany with MIr. Woods and informed
the Times of the outrage, no provo
ecation wthatover being given to Lra('.
In its next issue the Times dealt to
the marshal with an unsparing hand.
His appointment was condemned, his
conduct denounced as ruffianly and
outlawry, and the common (council)
scounlrels who could sanction placing
such a rascally vagabond in any posi
tion of trust or responsibility were
unworthy to be vested with the small
est modicum of local authority.
Therefore the Alaska Times called
for the cancelation of the marshal's
app.ointment., otherwise it would re
quest the commanding General, from
whom the common council derived
any seeming authority (for real au
thority they had none) to legislate
them to go home. Mr. Brady was in
office three days and was disgraceful
ly dismissed, and forthwith he went
to shoot an editor-to kill him on
sight. J.
MI0tTA A'; ('iI ISTEIN;G.
A lady correspondent in Minneapo- f
lis sends the following explanation of
how our Territory received its name I
to the Herald: i3
"Seeing in a Montana paper a cue -
ry concerning the origin of the name i t:
of that Territory, I write you the fol- s
lowing for your information: At the i
time your Territory was orguanized
several names for the new country i
was proposed. Colonel Cyrus A!- 1<
d-rich, then a Minnesota congressman, h
having heard of the romantic Indian It
legend of the home of the good spirit,
the land of the mountains, proposed
the Indian name, Montana, as a fit g
name for the new Territory. His (C
suggestion was adopted and your ti
Territory received the name it has
since borne."
We have the word of several cld- a
timers who resided here when the t]
Territory was organized, that the
above is incorrect. They say the
name was derived from the Spanish. a
__________ti
A prominent stockman in conversa
tion with a Press reporter, stated his
belief that the Bloods have been un
justly accused of stealing horses from
settlers and the Indians who have
done the most stealing during the
past summer and fall are from the
Blackfoot agency. In two instances
he has traced it to them, and is now
convinced that they are the thieves.
It is a habit of theirs to steal horses
when starting out on an expedition.
ride them to some point in the Judith I
and iMusselshell country, abandon
them and make a clean-up from the
settlers in that section. "Flopping
Bill" recently recovered four head
belonging to the Benton & St. Louis
Cattle company near Fort Maginnis I
and returned them to their owners.
The above seems to be the general
conviction of stockmen in this section.
It is claimed that the Blackfeet run
the horses they steal in Montana
across the line, where they exchange
them for others stolen by the Bloods
from the Dominion ranchers. It is
known that the Bloods have a large
number of Montana horses, and it is
also claimed that the Blackfeet have I
an equal number of horses that are t
not Montana stock. Verily, the un
tutored wards of the nation are learn
ing to utilize the boundary line equal
ly as well as the intelligent bank
cashier.
CAPTURE OF MORGAN.
Our readers, says the Inter Moun
tain, are familiar with the tragedy i
that occurred at Birch creek, Beaver- I
head county, on the morning of the C
5th of July last. As Fred Haining,
wife and child were returning from a I
call they were fired upon from am
bush, Haining killed and the child so
seriously wounded that the amputa- I
tion of a leg was necessary. Circum- j
stances pointed directly to W. D.
Morgan, who was at one time married (
to Mrs. Haining, as the author of the
hellish deed, but all attempts to se
cure him proved unavailing. Happily
Sheriff Jones, of Beaverhead county,
found a picture of Morgan in a pho
tograph gallery at Dillon and had
copies of it printed, with which he
flooded the country. Some were sent
to Victoria, in the British possessions I
where Morgan at one time lived. The
result was his arrest by the authori
ties of that place and a summons to
Sheriff Jones to come and get the c
prisoner. Sunday eveningthe sheriff
with Morgan in charge was a passen- I
ger on the south bound train for Dil
on. The finale of a bloody tragedy
will be decided as required by law at
the next term of court in the county
seat of Beaverhead. -
Tea Pittsburg mills are employed
exclusiv4ely "maing naturals pipe. I
OUR COM3MON FOOD F.SHEif.
'Ie I ock3y untaln lok Tr ,at.
r.oI rnTE r:IBUNE.
When with his lively r:ava tie potent sun
Slas pierved the st:crea:i and roused the
It in race.
TIen issuingo cheeri'il, to thy sport repair;
Just in the dubious point wherewith the
pot 1
Is mixed with the trembling stream, or
S shere it boils
roun!d a stone, or from the bott o;ied
bank
Rlverited plays in undula ting flow,
Tiaere throw, nice juilding, the de'lusive
fly:
And a you lead it rou;tdl in artful curve
With Ce attentive mark the springin:.g
St raight as ab,,ve the s'face of the flood
They w':nton rise, or urged by h::nger
lea!.
Thlen ix :ith gentle trwitcl, the !:arbed
hok.
So.me lghtly tosing to th' grassy t:,k.
And to the shel.ir g s1.ri iow idraggin
.iih vaiou andi: pa1.oirtined to their
force.
If yet too arin an" eai';I dec:eived,
A tu. :;es .r y sea L.e n IIds you. r pliant
Jt11;, l ritousl: of hie youtih, end the short
ipade
I. ha- %ej -:.d :.so ?ital light of heaven,
,iio- t dis.e .:1::': , ^..d ' :-, k into the stream
The speckled ,ctatihe throw. But should
sin re
From hin. dri h:unt, beneath the t'ngled
Of peuda.:t trees- the monarch of the
brook,
i'ehoret s youa then to ply your finest sit.
---TliOM P:ix'N's SEASONS.
Here we are once more in our ver
dant camp! We have come trout
fishing. Far . overhead the gentle
summer breeze sighs softly among the
monarchs of the forest. Out there on
yonder gnarled limb sits a squirrel
chattering merrily to his mate; and
there on a bough above us blithly
sings a little bird. At our fooeet the
limpid stream flows tinkling and gur
gling over the stones; while just be
low, the foam-capped water falls
laughing and dancing over a minia
ture cascade, like children romptug
and clapping their hands in childish
glee, when released from school.
Circling around yon beetling eraig is
the bald ea;.e, the king of birds; and,
peering from th.t little clump of
aldero, across the stream are three
timid deer. Everything is peaceful,
Nature is in a happy mood. Present
ly lth soothing breeze dies away, and
all is still. Hark! what sound was
that ' Only the report of a distant
rifle. Nay! it rumbles again louder
than before, and with ominous voice.
'Tis thunder! A clondflits across the
hitherto unclouded sky. A storm ap
proaches. Black and frowning masses
gather fast. The wind rises again.
This time it is an icy blast; it howls
and shrieks through the forest, bond
ing giant trees like reeds, and laying
saplings low. We harry into our tent
and silently watch the violence of the
elements. On comes the storm with a
mighty rush. The stream whose
bosom so lately dimpled and sparkled
in the sunlight now is black and
seething; it lashes the shore in infan
tile fury; and the lofty trees creak
and grown as though in an agony of
torture. Darkness overshadows us,
but not a word do we exchange: we
are absorbed in contemplating the
storm. The lightenings flash in lurid
sheets or in far-reaching crooked
streaks: the thunder roars and the
rain decends in torrents, deluging
everything. But loud above the noise
of the storm we hear the trees falling
in all directfons with many a terrific
crash, and now and again we hear
huge boulder -bounding along, over
turning all cb;jtcie3 in their impetu
ous decent from the mountain top.
At last the storm subsides, the kain
ceases, the clouds roll away and dis
close a gorgeous sunset. Once.
again the squirrels come forth from
their snug retreats, and the birds sing
thei vesper hymn and retires to roost.
Suoe was the experience of our first
day in camp. Next morning we
hurridly disposed of our breakfast in
our eagerness to bo off fishing; then
we set out with all the necessary
paraphernalia for a good day's work.
X. was in high spirits, and lifted up
his voice in song. Among the many
pieces he sang, one is well worth re
peating. It is a snatch from the
'Angler's Song':
Our art can tell the insect tribe that ev
ery month doth bring,
And with a curious wile we know to mock
its gauzy wing,
We know what breeze will bid the trout
through the curling waters leap,
And we can surely win him from shallow
or from deep;
For every cunning fish can we a cunning
bait provide,
In the sport that we court by the gentle
river side.
Where may we find the music like the
music of the stream?
What diamond like the glances of itsever
changing gleam ?
What couch so softas mossy banks, where
through the noontide hours
Our dreamy heads are pillowed on a hun.
dred simple flowers?
While through the crystal stream beneath
we mark the fishes glide,
-To the sport that we court by the gentle
river side.
X. has a fulnfl rich voie, and the
happy strains of the sons floi o
GMREAT FALLS TRIBUNE.
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Smonhs I. ! 1. 15. i 0. 55. 1 .
17a ar... . 1. I. ý 53.I( i. ; - 1 '. ( 20.
Bumiiess noici; in rrading mtir., 25 eLlnts
or line.
BAu4inss& nct.c,' 15 conr. ,-r i:nr or f:rst in
rtion, and i0 e ,nts per i for rcharubsquennt
asertion of varm nmatter.
on the morning air, re echoing from
canyon to canyon so i ded strangely
sweet and melodious.
X. is an excellent fi: 1. .rm^n. but da
the trip I sponk of I nghi almhnost
as many trout as he di, andi all the
real big one- :o.n.t th.eir way to my
hook. MBy comi:an:on il" ::many an
other unsciti.ie man 'tgltti there
were at lnot four or ve' species of
trout found in tlf we:t. I to;l him
that evven the b i'g ;la::'-trou of the
C,,lrubia River wa-; the sae as the
filsh w' ' o' then eatchi?.'. Ialo in
forne d hiLm : t n Tlowstone
trout was the s:aU ', tI. Hi could
not Ibllieve it. In fact. he mildly
g;..-:ed that I "ws Ae-i':g a fish
Sor'yi. !, T : ... vi on !.1'ieo
vwhat I f:!. you i yu -'c-e it in black
and white i .'um1.' »n;,'d r.ehiable work
on fiASe. 1-e a i ,e woeol: -; I pro
duced the fol'>win: extra",t `hilch is
from 0B1 3U't'n . 'f 1n', tne, States
Fi. the of -o: th ', ,. i':, 5. Jor' an
ri, G ilbert) T.. ue n dii i came is
Salmo purpuratu..--P!.la.
The b owmn trout ,f the r Iek ,
`mountains and C":(':' renio,
b runding in alithe Sit.c....S. of A"a.Lka,
Oregon and Va:higt2 Ter;it.,ry,
where it dvece',d;; to s:t w::ter, and
reaches the weight uf 2 lpnames;
(Columbia river, Charles J. Smith)
also in tlh Y.,!;. -.a:to'+ :':r'ion, the
upper Mi> i-orit, uper P Rio
Grande, Co:or:ado, and to Iak.s of
.he Great Bain of UtahT--being
abundant in Utah L: 1e. Thsey are
not common ...th f. Mn Shasta
in California. Th!s s'e`ie is ip,,r
1ntly the parent stock, f'om lhich
our other bl . (' ac.-s tro t have
scarcely as yet. BI.::: me disterentiated.
Considerable o aIC! vari ti on occur,
ispecially in size, co .r.ion and size
,f scales. The 1nd M loteh's on the
lower jaw boetween ith. denlarvy bones
Ind the tmem,1o.:i jo(inin. thorn is
t'nr: rcn d n n 1!_r. ? ?.,!
)er CoLIStanIL nL ila 'iT rcnifc.
This trout is calL the S:imnon trout
of the Columbia, Tellowstone trout,
Lake trout, and loky ?Mountain
Brook trout. As : b:::t bove, it va
ries greatly in ..i-e and coloration.
While upcn our fishing excursion we
caught fish that were nearly black,
fish that were green fi tf that were
almost yellow, f-ih with many spot',
fish with few spots; big fish, thick
fish, slim fish, fish with throat all ver
milion which shaded ofi to a warm
glow on the breast, and fish with only
a more patch of red under the chin.
Yet although the fish we caught va
ried so much in size and appearance,
they all bore the characteristics which
proclaimed them all to be one and the
same kind. The trout found in the
locality of the Great Spring is ident
ical with the species found in the
creeks. Our trout spawn in the au
tumn. At some periods of the year
many people can not catch them. In
fact, I have heard many an old hunt
er say that they would bite only at
certain seasons. But the truth is, the
bait must be changed to suit the time
of the year, and sometimes to suit the
locality. If this important matter is
skillfully attended to trout can be
caught with hook and line every
month in the year.
Little or no fly fishing is done here,
grasshoppers being the nearest al
proach to flies that most people use.
The trout is a very smart fish and is
easily alarmed; therefore, he must be
approached carefully, or off he goes
like a dart. He is carniverous and a
cannibal. Many fine trout have we
caught by using a piece of spotted
skin or the tail or eye of another fish
of the same species.
There is a little fish found under
the stones in the brooks that is often
usod for trout bait, with groat success.
It looks like a miniature catfish or
I.nllhead. Some people call it a stickle
back; but the name is erroneous, for
the fish is doubtless a species of mill
ers-thumb. Some hunters say that
this little fish eats the eggs and fry of
the trout. If such is the case, it must
consume vast quantities, for it is very
voracious. I have however, examined
the stomachs of many of these mill
er's-thumbs and found them to con
tain small water-beetles, their larvae,
the grubs and larvim of beetles and
flies, whose early life is spent in the
water, and of the buds of water
plants; but I have been unable to find
any traces of eggs or of young trout.
FnrD. Ax.uDtaoi.
Ex-Congressman Hoar is lectur
ing in Michigan.
There is a movement in New York
city to make the city its own gas mak
er and so escape the extortions of the
private companies.
"Jugw mp" is the fashionable.name
of prohibitiosists who want to dshut
the bars and run the brown jug for
private consumption.
The Nez- Perce News rpot
killing of'an enormous ba the
Little Salmon, which has kiledtwo -.
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